Push Branch with Git
- Stacey Brown-Sommers
These instructions will walk you through how to push a branch of development with git. Note: I use Windows10, so this instructions are based on that.
Before you begin, you will need:
Local development environment set up.
a git bash installed on your local system.
Git installed on the linux system. (
sudo apt-get install git)A username/token in gitlab (how to set up token)
Instructions
Here are the step-by-step instructions for how to do a push to a branch.
Go to the folder of your local system. Right click and open git bash.
Configure git:
$ git config --global user.name "John Doe"
$ git config --global user.email johndoe@example.comMake sure you are in the folder you want to push (using cd..)
Then, initialize git.
git init
git remote add origin https://[your username]:[your token]@gitlab.com/stacey5/mindlink-theme.gitNow time to create the commit:
git add ~[folderlocation]
git add ~[folderlocation]/*
git commit -m "note about the commit"Now let’s create the branch and push!
Once you’re done, you can request a merge to the master from me. I’ll approve and it should update everything! Boom!
Need to start over? Remove the git folder: rm -rf .git
If you get an error git error fatal remote origin already exists, you can use git remote remove origin and try again.
If you need to reset the url, git remote add origin https://[your username]:[your token]@gitlab.com/stacey5/mindlink-theme.git
Now you’re ready to push the updates.